Mercedes Pescador - Let them all tell you what happened

1 Authors

2 Dedication

3 Writings from the heart

4 Future

5 Fear

6 Time

7 Family

8 Love

9 Poetry

10 Fiction

11 The illustrators

1 Índice de contenido

2 Portada

A

Sergio Luis Aguilar

Samael Alba Pérez

Ana Isabel Alcaide

Mayra Lorena Alfaro Méndez

Estefanía Almonacid Velosa

Rodrigo Alonso Otero

Deisy Paola Alonso Ramos

Rocío Amores Calvo

Mercedes Anchezar

Anonymous

Pilar Añibarro Aguado

Jorge Luis Aramburú Correa

Nora Delia Arrieta Camus

Irene María Arroyo Montero

Cristina Artsan

Keren Azulay

B

Irene Bachler

Andrés Felipe Balaguera Sarmiento

Claudia Barba Capllonch

Sheila Barbero Gil

José Luis Basulto Ortega

Alberto Bejarano

Fátima Beltrán Curto

Alicia Noemí Benítez

Carina Bentolila

María Inés Berrino Domingo

Lisbeth Boschetti Goetschel

Rosa Brosé Rodríguez

Halina Brunning

C

Javier Caballero Sánchez

María Cabrera

Diana Calderón

Jorge Andrés Calvo Izquierdo

Kevin Cano García Moreno

Iliana Capllonch Cerdá

Pablo Mauricio Carbone Unzueta

Carlavilla

Jorge Enrique Caro Niño

Laura Valentina Castiblanco

Jhonny Castillo

Rosmery Cedeño

Mercedes Centena Mora

Claudia Patricia

Milton Cohen-Henríquez Sasso

José Manuel Conde Pérez

Bernardo Congote

Sergio Contreras Pouso

María Jesús Corbalán Pérez

Herberth Coronado

Julia Paulina Correa Henríquez

Lázaro Miguel Ángel Cotrina Reyes

Ambre Couturier

Hugo Coya

Marcela Crespo

D

Silvina de Aduriz

Raquel Marta de Bordóns Cortázar

Alberto de la Fuente y de la Concha (Chorro)

Patricia del Amo Torres

Maritza Delgado Rubilar

Marta de Prado

Sandra Analía Di Croce

E

Francisca Andrea Estay Lizana

F

Claudia Gabriela Fernández

Marcelo “Michel” Fernández Farias

Juan Miguel Fernández Linde

Susana Fernández Ollero

Danna Nicol Forero Muñoz

Dr. Bartolomé Freire Arteta

Cristian Fuster Sebastián

G

David Galarreta

Mariano Gallardo

Jesús G. Amago

Juan Ramón García Alquézar

Toni García Arias

César García

Marta García de Alcaraz - Chason

Noemí García

Mar García Rodríguez

Catia García Vargas

Isabel Garzo

Juan G. Bedoya

Asun Gómez Bueno

Clara Gonorowsky

Elizabeth González

África González Fernández

Erika Paulina González López

Carmen Luz Gorriti

Ammi Guiop Vadillo

Alison Daían Gutiérrez Rivas

H

Lidia Inés Heller Sonis

Dionisio Hernández Contreras

Gabriela Hernández

Beatriz Hernando Moral

Lourdes Herraez Cáceres

Enrique Manuel Hidalgo Naharro

I

Ángeles Iglesia

Gema Igual Ortiz

K

Gitika Kaji

Alicia Kaufmann

L

Horacio Ladrón de Guevara

Eva Levy

Alejandro Li Hon

Ana Isabel López

Dilcia López Chuquihuanga

Graciela López

Xavier López

Nerea Lorenzo Casado

Axcel Herbertsh Luhr Rauch

M

Fiorella Madera Martínez

Ayelet Mamo Shay

Pedro Manrique

Silvia Marsó

María Amparo Martín Esteban

María Paz Martín Esteban

Maura Martín

Susana Mato Adrover

Orlando Alonso Mazeira Guillén

Hever Mendoza

Verónica Mercado

Núria Miguel Villalba

Omar Duval Milano Dib

Ana Mercedes Miranda Morán

William Fernando Molano Lamprea

Eudes Alexander Moncada Colmenares

Lidia Monzón

Nicole Stephanie Morales Cooper

(Natalia) Musa Moreno Maldonado

Dianne Mortensen

Estrella Muñoz Jurado

Emilio Muñoz Ruiz

N

Enzo Navone

NMF

Brigid Nossal

Daniel Núñez Ansalas

María Angélica Núñez Jelves

O

Julio Ocampo

Arturo Ocaña Ocaña

Alicia Ojalvo Sánchez

Rafael María Ontivero Valero

Manuel Orantes-Álvarez

Perpetua Ordoñez Villavicencio

Mariana Orrego Sánchez

P

Keydi Pacheco

Adlemi Palomo

Mariluz Parras Salgado

Adrian Parsadh

Silvia Penón Sevilla

Mercedes Pescador

Katerine Pombo Jiménez

Jesús Portillo

Giovanna Catherine Prado Cuadros

Lidia Susana Puterman

Q

Mathilde Quiney

Rita Quinodoz

Sara Quintero Triguero

Paola Gabriela Quispe Quispe

R

Roberto R. Aramayo

Héctor Rasguido Espinoza

Paola Verónica Reverón Hurtado

Roberto Reverón

Mario Reyes Becerra

Cristina Rey Fernández

Steph Ritz

Gema Rodríguez Carmona

Juan Manuel Rodríguez Elizondo

Hernán Rodríguez Fisse

Maite Rodríguez García

Jaime Rodríguez

Rosa María Rodríguez Loranca

Damián Rodríguez Pérez

Olga Rodríguez Rodríguez

Gabriela Edna Rojas Maldonado

Carla Patricia Rojas Neculhual

Mar Rojo Rodríguez

Cecilia Soledad Roldán

Marcela Royo Lira

S

Marián Salaet Martínez

Susana Sala

Ester Noemí Salomón

Gladys Inés Salomón

Raquel Sánchez-Muliterno García

Sylvia Sánchez

Viviana Sánchez

María del Refugio Sandoval Olivas

Javier Santiago Soria

Horacio Federico Schmidt

Amalia Serrano

Eva Serrano Clavero

Ana Serrano Tellería

Ekaterina Shapovalova

Sandra Araceli Soto Dotor

Marlyn Johanna Soto Ramírez

Carlos André Suárez Rivero

T

Ramón Tamames

Silvana Tayupanta

Franco Roberto Tempone

Jacqueline Toribio Vargas

Arturo Tornel Moreno

Benjamín José Touris Durán

U

Elizabeth Ugalde V.

Rebeca Urazán Benítez

V

Luesa van Luyn

María Soledad Velasco Rodríguez

Ignacio José Vidal Arriola

Adonay Vilche

Katherine Villa Guerrero

Dixson Villasmil

Juan Villegas

Oscar Javier Villegas Vélez

W

Sandra Wandemberg

Y

Isabel Yano Lombardía

Z

Kevin Zea Castañeda

To all those who couldn’t get a hug in their last moments:

may their souls rest among tulips and almond trees,

wrapped up by the breeze of unconditional love.

Mercedes Pescador

“My soul is free and it is its own self,

and it is accustomed to carry itself in its own way”

Michel de Montaigne

The Essays (according to the 1595 edition

by Marie de Gournay)

I started this collective literary work on March 12th 2020, I was full of curiosity but I also did it out of my own fears. The World Health Organization (WHO) had just declared the coronavirus or COVID-19 a pandemic, the death toll was alerting of an unknown danger with unpredictable consequences which was spreading from country to country, causing death and misery. The book shops were closing, the crisis was affecting every economic sector and the continuity of my own publishing label was unknown.

If this were to be my last book, I would be grateful.

While scientists were desperately searching for a vaccine to save humanity, I found refuge in these intimate chronicles of the 2020 pandemic.